[chef] Re: Re: Re: Re: Error in mysql cookbook

[Lamont Granquist < >]

The "rhel" platform_family was initially supposed to be recompiled 
redhat enterprise linux clones (hence 'rhel' and not 'redhat') that are 
mostly compatible in all their versions of things and use the same 
platform_version numbering scheme -- so RHEL, CentOS, Scientific Linux 
and Oracle.   Later 'amazon' snuck in there even though they upgrade 
all kinds of RPMs and use version numbers like "2013.09", which wasn't 
the original intent since 'amazon' is not rhel -- 'fedora' is also not 
'rhel' either.  We can add fedora to the rhel platform_family but it 
only sorta kicks the can down the road a bit and then this kind of 
thing breaks:

case platform_family
when "rhel"
 if platform_version.to_i == 6
   do_something_for_rhel6
 else
   do_something_for_rhel5
 end
end

On Wed Mar  5 00:09:01 2014, Noah Kantrowitz wrote:
> Fedora has made numerous policy decisions over the past few years to make them highly 
> incompatible with RHEL-ish OSes. As a shining topical example, Fedora no longer ships 
> "real" MySQL, they ship MariaDB instead.
>
> --Noah
>
> On Mar 5, 2014, at 12:05 AM, Cassiano Leal 
> <
>  >
>  wrote:
>
> > I'm interested in understanding why is Fedora not a part of the 'rhel' os 
> > family.
> >
> > On Wednesday, March 5, 2014 at 8:00, Noah Kantrowitz wrote:
> >
> > > As I said on IRC, the issue is just that the code in the OpenStack recipe 
> > > only has conditions for 'debian' and 'rhel' families. This means on Fedora 
> > > that variable ends up being nil, which when interpolated as a string is ''.
> > >
> > > --Noah
> > >
> > > On Mar 4, 2014, at 11:53 PM, Peeyush Gupta 
> > > <
> > >  >
> > >  wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi all,
> > > >
> > > > I am trying to deploy openstack using openstack-chef-repo 
> > > > (https://github.com/stackforge/openstack-chef-repo). I am using fedora 19 and 
> > > > here is the error I am getting:
> > > >
> > > > ================================================================================
> > > > Recipe Compile Error in 
> > > > /var/chef/cache/cookbooks/openstack-ops-database/recipes/server.rb
> > > > ================================================================================
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > ArgumentError
> > > > -------------
> > > > Bad string format template[], you must have a string like resource_type[name]!
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Cookbook Trace:
> > > > ---------------
> > > > /var/chef/cache/cookbooks/openstack-ops-database/recipes/mysql-server.rb:50:in
> > > >  `from_file'
> > > > /var/chef/cache/cookbooks/openstack-ops-database/recipes/server.rb:22:in 
> > > > `from_file'
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Relevant File Content:
> > > > ----------------------
> > > > /var/chef/cache/cookbooks/openstack-ops-database/recipes/mysql-server.rb:
> > > >
> > > > 43: case node['platform_family']
> > > > 44: when 'debian'
> > > > 45: mycnf_template = '/etc/mysql/my.cnf'
> > > > 46: when 'rhel'
> > > > 47: mycnf_template = 'final-my.cnf'
> > > > 48: end
> > > > 49:
> > > > 50>> r = resources("template[#{mycnf_template}]")
> > > > 51: r.notifies_immediately(:restart, 'service[mysql]')
> > > > 52:
> > > > 53: mysql_connection_info = {
> > > > 54: host: 'localhost',
> > > > 55: username: 'root',
> > > > 56: password: node['mysql']['server_root_password']
> > > > 57: }
> > > > 58:
> > > > 59: mysql_database 'FLUSH PRIVILEGES' do
> > > >
> > > > Now, I talked to people on IRC and apparently not all cookbooks work with 
> > > > Fedora. I don't plan to put Fedora in production, we would be using RHEL 
> > > > there, I tried it only for testing purposes. But I am still interested to 
> > > > know, what is causing this error? I mean I have template defined, the why 
> > > > isn't the cookbook able to find it? Isn't Fedora a part of RHEL family 
> > > > anymore?
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > ~Peeyush Gupta